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The Parker Solar Probe is set to orbit within 3.9 million miles of the suns surface, where temperatures exceed 2,500 Fahrenheit (1,377 Celsius) (Photo:AFP)

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A real scorcher: NASA probe to fly into sun's atmosphere

The solar Probe will liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2018

1 Jun 2017 10:09 AM IST

SpaceX is working on a version of its Dragon capsule that will carry crew to the space station, perhaps as early as next year (Photo: AFP)

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SpaceX's first recycled Dragon arrives at space station

It was originally flown on SpaceX's fourth re-supply mission in 2014.

6 Jun 2017 8:14 AM IST

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Cassini spacecraft to dive inside Saturn's rings for mission finale

Cassini has been exploring the giant planet and its entourage of 62 known moons

5 April 2017 11:16 AM IST

New Horizons arrived at Pluto in July 2015, becoming its first visitor from Earth. It launched from Cape Canaveral in 2006.

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NASA spacecraft halfway between Pluto and next smaller stop

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now halfway between Pluto and its next much, much smaller stop

5 April 2017 11:10 AM IST

NASAs Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiters south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on February 2, 2017 at 6:06 a.m. PT (9:06 a.m. ET), from an altitude of about 62,800 miles (101,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops. (Image: Nasa)

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NASA releases breathtaking close-up images of Jupiter

Juno's next flyby will be on May 19, 2017.

3 April 2017 11:23 AM IST

NASA suggests that Voyager 1 should keep on running for another 2-3 years before it runs out of fuel in the interstellar space.

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NASA nails test on voyager spacecraft, 13 billion miles away

Voyager 1 is the only spacecraft traveling through interstellar space, the region beyond our solar system.

5 Dec 2017 9:46 AM IST

$The cargo spacecraft mission provides an \important technological basis\ to build a Chinese space station (Photo: AFP)$ Science

China's first cargo spacecraft docks with orbiting Tiangong-2 space...

Beijing's goal is to establish a permanently manned space station by 2022

22 April 2017 12:27 PM IST

Reliance Jio free 4G services have reduced profit of Airtel by more than half, lowered Vodafone Indias profit and pushed Idea Cellular into first ever quarterly loss.

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Mobile subscriber base reaches 895.25 mn in March

The numbers include those of the latest entrant, Reliance Jio Infocomm as of December 2016

22 April 2017 12:27 PM IST

Saturns atmosphere seen closer than ever before was captured by NASAs Cassini spacecraft during its first Grand Finale dive past the planet on April 26 and released on April 27, 2017. (Photo: NASA)

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US spacecraft shares first view from inside Saturn's rings

A stream of pictures showing Saturn's swirling clouds, massive hurricane and odd six-sided vortex weather system were...

28 April 2017 8:10 AM IST

This NASA handout image depicts the Cassini unmanned spacecraft above Saturns rings

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NASA's Cassini poised to plunge beneath Saturn's rings

Cassini is running low on fuel, and will make a death plunge into Saturn's surface on September 15.

26 April 2017 9:38 AM IST

$Tantalum carbide (TaC) and hafnium carbide (HfC) are refractory ceramics, meaning they are extraordinarily resistant to heat. (Representational image)$ Science

World's most heat resistant material found

Researchers from Imperial College London discovered that the melting point of hafnium carbide is the highest ever...

26 Dec 2016 8:09 AM IST

Pandora (52 miles, 84 kilometers) across orbits Saturn just outside the narrow F ring.

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NASA's Cassini captures high-resolution image of Saturn's mini-moon...

The image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is one of the highest-resolution views ever taken of Saturn's moon Pandora.

23 Dec 2016 10:40 AM IST